[MPlayer-users] 100% cpu usage when playing a mp3 file with alsa9:surround40-channels 4

Thomas Zangl - Mobil mobil at tzi.dhs.org
Thu Oct 30 09:21:54 CET 2003


 
Am Sun, 26 Oct 2003 02:14:26 +0200, schrieb "Thomas Lindroth" <tholi945 at student.liu.se>:

Hi,

>>> Since I use mplayer (8 months) I experienced a 100% cpu usage when I play
>>> a mp3 file with the following command line:
>>> 
>>> mplayer -ao alsa9:surround40 -channels 4 "mymp3file"
>>> 
>>> if I just use mplayer -ao alsa9 it uses less than 1% cpu time.
>>> 
>>> Why? Whats the big diffrence between those 2 commandlines, except the first
>>> one (maybe) uses all 4 channels my soundcard provides.
>
>The same thing happens to me. I've got a SB live 1024 card and alsa 0.9.8

Any developer around would like to comment this? Would be _REALLY_ good
to have this fixed, this would make mplayer my all-in-one media player :-)

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